Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...

With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction has become much easier. Having said that, web scraping can be used by digital businesses ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection methods. Some businesses scrape data ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

The case law is still unsettled, but some rules of thumb are starting to emerge, says Alex Reese is a partner and Raven Quesenberry of Farella Braun + Martel. LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction ...

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, ...

An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the surface the ...